Happy New Year

Happy New Year! 

May 2017 bring much wealth, prosperity and good health to you and yours and be filled with much writing success!

Write, write, write...edit, edit, edit...submit, submit, submit...and then CELEBRATE, CELEBRATE, CELEBRATE!!

Merry Christmas

Wishing you all a very blessed Christmas and holiday season!  Safe travels if you will be on the road. Enjoy your time spent with friends and family.  God Bless!

Last Minute Christmas Gifts

Books make great Christmas gifts and stocking stuffers.  If you need to help Santa fill stockings in your house this Christmas season, Bedtime Kisses and Little Bug may be perfect for your little one.

Mommy will be here really soon, but first I'll plant some kisses on my friends around the room...so begins a different type counting book for little ones.

Persistence pays in the end as Little Bug crawls to find a morsel of food, a drink of water and a place to rest.  Teaches about concepts and prepositions.

Autographed copies available.

Guardian Angel Publishing New Releases

Just in time for your Christmas shopping for little ones...

Guardian Angel Publishing November 2016 Releases

MACARONI & CHEESE FOR THANKSGIVING
Littlest Angels
by Cheryl C Malandrinos, Marina Movshina
Ten-year-old Macy is waiting for her grandparents to arrive for Thanksgiving. Can she save dinner when the dog steals the turkey off the table?
http://www.guardianangelpublishing.com/mac-cheese.htm

SQUIRREL SUPERHIGHWAY-It's Good to be a Dog
Animals & Pets
by Anna C Morrison, art by Vanda Lavar
Squirrels, more squirrels, even more squirrels, and a dog who wants to be a squirrel!
http://www.guardianangelpublishing.com/superhighway.htm

YOU OUGHT TO BE IN PIG-TURES
Chapbooks for Tweens
by Debe Branning art by Jack Foster
Chickolet Pigolet’s family wins an all exclusive trip to Hollywood where Chickolet attempts to fulfill his dream of becoming a famous Hollywood motion pig-ture star.
http://www.guardianangelpublishing.com/chickolet-pigolet3-pig-tures.htm

THE BUTTON -ED TRETTIN'S STORY
Historical Chapbook for Tweens
as told to Dixie Phillips by Margaret Trettin
Ed Trettin enlisted in the United States Coast Guard, serving on the cutter the USS Ingham, traveling over 700,000 miles. Doing “search and rescue” of survivors would lead him decades later to one man he had pulled from the icy Atlantic. http://www.guardianangelpublishing.com/the-button.htm

Make the Decision to Pursue and Press On

I happened to look down at my weekly calendar today.  I don't always do so despite having specifically chosen one that had good quotes to read on a weekly basis.  Today, I did, and I am glad.

In the words of Amelia Earhart...

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.  The fears are paper tigers.  You can do anything you decide to do.  You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward."

So today, as we embark on a new week (and soon a new month), decide to act.  Read, write, research, edit, market...whatever it is you need to do.  Do it.  Don't let the fear of the what ifs prevent your action.  Decide to do it and just. do. it!  Go grab that reward with both hands and be productive.  I've spent a couple hours organizing my mess of a desk and pile of to-dos today, so I can hit the road running in the morning.  I hope you can too.

Happy writing/doing this week!  If you feel so inclined, please check back in at the end of the week and let me know how it went.

Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing you all a wonderful holiday filled with peace, love, health and family...not to mention turkey and all the fixings!  Enjoy your Thanksgiving and be safe in your travels.

2016 SCBWI Winter Reading List

I am excited to share that Little Bug is part of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Winter Reading List.  You can check it out on page 3 of the West division at https://www.scbwi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/West_2016.pdf.  Come visit Little Bug as he crawls to find a morsel of food, a drink of water and a place to rest. He looks high and low and gets very tired and slow after trying to leap on the wing of a butterfly and catch a wiggly worm.

There are over 1,100 titles on the list from 328 publishers in 15 different regions around the world.  Find Little Bug and many other great books to love on the SCBWI Winter Reading List.